The Archive · 1933

An Unknown Nation

Japanese Bishop's Strange Pamphlet: Japan to Free Jewry Fro Our Ows Connesroxoext a Tokyo, Sept. 2.

A strange and his under the title of our Emperor Jimmu. Is all this not wonderful? The prophecy was never intended for any country of Europe or America. To what nation then does it apply?"

Not Perseeute Jews unto thee, because of Jehovah thy. God, and Holy One of for he hath glorified thee", and draws the deduction that the nation referred to by the Prophet is none other than the Japanese to whom when a new. world. war, "which is in the "making", breaks out will be given the "Divine sanc~ tion to suppress the Whites and to let the Jews return to their native land, Palestine. It is strange to read' such vapourings from a Christian ecclesiastic and this new man infestation to-day in Japan of: "Meinself und Gott" is only yet another ramification of the absurd "divinity-complex" that. obsessed people of all walks of life in this country, Needless to say, this crude belief is carefully fostered and nurtured and the malleability with which the Japanese herd mind an be easily twisted to this or that then takes a fiying leap. fror Whom St. Paul Athenians' to the Unknown Nation reached to the Unknown God

that is to deliver the Jews. This Unknown Nation, he says, is Japan who alone did mot persecute the Jews.

God, he refected of Japan for over 2,000 years in order that shall be the instrument of the Almighty!

Some people here declare that the sole objective of the they must needs consider the sul Ject yet further. Of course we may fight the entire world and very likely we will. We who bell the genuine Gospel are no ant 'A great world war will break out at the time of the unparalleled tribulation' which is close upon us ind it is then that the Divine sane jon will be given to Japan to suppress the White peoples and to let purpose makes the task of impress the Jews return to. their native ing these fantastic doctrines on Japan is not going to the minds of the people all the|do this just to chastise the Aryan easier.

Bishop Nakada's pam/ let_com-monees by declaring that a period of "unparalleled tribulation" store for all the world, that the Bible and conditions to-day amply warrant such a belief and that events of an unprecedented and fearful nature will occur in the very near future.

The League of Nations is, in this ecclesiastic's opinion, a forerunner Anti-Christ and he declares races, but because it is the God-appointed duty of Japan to do so ist the Jews in the estab-parently, this Japanese never heard of the establishment of the Jewish national palestine or that, with assistance of Great Bri United Sates, the Jews are actually possession' of a national home). have said the same thing League was organised." "Tu the not very distant future, he proceeds, the League will take some definite form and action Bishop Nakada then quotes R lations a-4, im "which the evangelist sees "an Angel ing from the East, having the fof the Living God; and he eri with a loud voice to the four Angels will be controlled by one man, the to whom it was Anti-Christ, who will be the leading earth and the sea, ig the time of unparal- not the earth, neither to hurt the saying: Hurt the sea, nor leied tribulation that is in store for the world shortly.

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